Word: monets
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Hailing the new trend, half a dozen U.S. museums this year are featuring their newly acquired Monet paintings. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has hung a show of its whole collection of 33 Monet oils to honor its recently purchased, nonimpres-sionist La Japonaise (see overleaf), Monet's genuine tribute to Japanese art, for which his first wife, Camille, posed. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is showing its third late-Monet purchase, Pond and Covered Bridge (opposite). In April the Art Institute of Chicago will celebrate its newly purchased Iris at the Side...
TWICE during his long (86 years) lifetime, Pioneer Impressionist Claude Monet had to face the jeers and catcalls of critics. The first time was when his painting, Impression: Sunrise, appeared at the first impressionist showing in Paris in 1874, and was ridiculed as a formless monstrosity. But as the public slowly came to appreciate the impressionists' atmospheric, sun-drenched works. Monet grew rich, won enthusiastic plaudits from the critics as well as the public. His second rebuff came toward the end. when his studies of the water-lily pond, with its Japanese covered bridge, on his country estate...
...Sistine Chapel." French Painter Andre Massno started the bandwagon five years ago by boldly calling Monet's Water Lily panels in Paris' Orangerie "the Sistine Chapel of impressionism." Collector Walter Chrysler Jr. and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both climbed aboard, bought late-Monet paintings (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). The Monet boom resounded even louder with a show of his late works last summer by Paris Art Dealer Katia Granoff, who bought from Monet's son, Michel, the paintings that for decades had been stored at Monet's Giverny studio (where several collected shrapnel...
...greatest of the surrealists," is the title leading French Critic Claude Roger-Marx has bestowed posthumously on Odilon Redon, the strange, self-effacing painter of dreams and visions who so perplexed his 19th century impressionist colleagues. Although he was a contemporary of such greats as Manet, Monet, Renoir and Cézanne, Redon was out of step with his generation. He set out on his own path, investigated what lay in and behind the shadows that the sun-struck painters of his day chose to ignore...
...painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together the impressionists as a group. Because he remained in the midstream of the art movements of his day. experimenting with each new movement and sponsoring innovations, his works lacked the distinctive quality that makes his contemporaries, Degas, Monet, Manet, Renoir and Cezanne, recognizable at a glance...